[f. next: see -ENCY: cf. TRALUCENCY.] The quality or condition of being translucent; partial transparency: see quot. 1842. Also fig.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Whore, Wks. II. 111/1. So one glance or glimpse of the translucencie of your eyes sun-dazeling corruscancy.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 52. Ice … its atoms are not concreted into continuity, which doth diminish its translucency.
1831. Faraday, Exp. Res., xlvi. 339. Different degrees of colour or translucency.
1843. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., Translucency, semitransparency. The term is chiefly used in descriptive mineralogy as applied to minerals which admit of a passage of the rays of light, but through which objects cannot be definitely distinguished.
1879. Calderwood, Mind & Br., 61. A chamber filled with a clear watery fluid, essential for the translucency of the external portion of the eye.
